 Women’s Roles on U.S. Fortune 500 Boards: Director Expertise and Committee MembershipsCraig Peterson and James Philpot () Journal of Business Ethics, 2007, vol. 72, issue 2, 177-196 Abstract: This study examines the presence and roles of female directors of U.S. Fortune 500 firms, focusing on committee assignments and director background. Prior work from almost two decades ago concludes that there is a systematic bias against females in assignment to top board committees. Examining a recent data set with a logistic regression model that controls for director and firm characteristics, director resource-dependence roles and interaction between director gender and director characteristics, we find that female directors are less likely than male directors to sit on executive committees and more likely than male directors to sit on public affairs committees. There is little if any evidence of systematic gender bias in director assignment to other board committees. We find some evidence that boards evaluate resource dependence differently for women than men. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007 Keywords: boards of directors; board committees; corporate governance; gender issues; resource dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:72:y:2007:i:2:p:177-196 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9164-8 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Ethics is currently edited by Michelle Greenwood and R. Edward Freeman More articles in Journal of Business Ethics from Springer |
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